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Steve Jobs and the Freedom of the American Business System

Posted: October 6, 2011 at 6:29 am

Steve Jobs was the greatest genius of the American technical age, which started with the launch of the PC and the operating systems that ran it. He was uniquely American, ...
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Amazon Makes Nothing On New Kindle Fire

Posted: September 30, 2011 at 8:58 pm

Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) makes no money on its new Kindle Fire tablet PC. That may be a sign that it will seek to take market share from Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) ...
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Companies Where Employees Are Losing Hope

Posted: September 19, 2011 at 6:25 am

Some companies become so badly damaged because of changes in the competitive markets or due to poor management decisions that their employees lose hope. This may be due to the ...
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Cisco–One Of The Largest US Layoffs Of The Year?

Posted: July 11, 2011 at 1:34 pm

Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO), one of the largest tech firms in the U.S. with a market cap of $85 billion and annual sales of $40 billion, will lay off 5,000 to ...
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Is John Chambers Too Old To Fix Cisco?

Posted: April 6, 2011 at 4:52 am

CEO years are like dog years. Most chief executives at large corporations are fortunate if they last a decade on the job. Cisco's (NASDAQ: CSCO) CEO John Chambers, who has ...
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Ten Big Tech Stocks That Have Outperformed Apple This Year

Posted: April 4, 2011 at 12:57 pm

There are ten major technology stocks that have outperformed Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) this year. Apple's earnings will be announced shortly, and although some analysts are still raising earnings estimates and ...
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The 10 Companies That Will Save The American Economy

Posted: March 25, 2011 at 4:31 am

America lost its lead as the world’s top manufacturer to China. That is in part the basis of the argument that China’s Gross Domestic Product will pass America’s sometime before ...
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An Apple iPad 2 Parts Shortage

Posted: March 17, 2011 at 5:08 pm

Hardware industry research firm iSuppli has issued a report which says that Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) may run short on some parts used to build the iPad 2. The aftermath ...
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America’s Ten Biggest Corporate Turnarounds

Posted: February 3, 2011 at 3:34 am

Corporate turnarounds are almost never engineered by a single person. A CEO who takes a failing company and makes it successful again obviously got help from management, a board, along ...
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Dell: Bad Business Practices Trump Earnings

Posted: November 19, 2010 at 5:32 am

Dell (NYSE: DELL) reported especially strong earnings for its last quarter. Revenue was up 19% to $15.4 billion. Net income rose 144% to $822 million. CEO Michael Dell was bold ...
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Hot Apple Rumors 11/3

Posted: November 3, 2010 at 2:47 pm

From AppleInsider:   Apple has not provided enough evidence to prove that Nokia has violated patents, according to a memo from the International Trade Commission obtained by the International Trade Commission.  ...
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Apple About To Become The World’s Largest Tech Company By Total Sales

Posted: October 18, 2010 at 8:02 pm

Skeptics have asked, fairly, why Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) should have a larger market capitalization than Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ), Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), and IBM (NYSE: IBM). The answer is that ...
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Apple And Bank Of America: The Market In Minature

Posted: October 14, 2010 at 11:46 am

Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) and Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) are a nearly perfect cameo of where the stock market is now, and where it is likely to remain after ...
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BlackBerry Launches A Tablet

Posted: September 27, 2010 at 6:05 pm

Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) unveiled a new professional-grade BlackBerry PlayBook tablet and BlackBerry Tablet OS. Measuring less than half an inch thick and weighing less than a pound, the ...
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Developers Desert Apple For Android At Rapid Pace

Posted: September 27, 2010 at 6:12 am

Apple may have the largest application store in the world with 200,000 apps and nearly 4 billion downloads. But, software developers see Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG) Android as the mobile platform ...
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